Day: August 30, 2023

Know Your Ingredients: Mugwort  

Bright, herbaceous, and widely sought-after for its healing properties, mugwort is leaving a unique mark on the coffee world.  BY EMILY JOY MENESES BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE Featured photo by Jeffrey Robb via Pixabay As an […]
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Direct Trade via Direct Message: How Instagram is Facilitating a New Kind of Coffee Connection

One morning in 2022, I walked into work to find an envelope of green coffee samples from a source I wasn’t familiar with. My boss told me they came from a Costa Rican coffee farmer who contacted her via Instagram. Alejo Castro Kahle runs Volcan Azul, a company that includes three farms and a mill,…
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